Erskine Sanford
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1885-11-19
Day of Death
1969-07-07 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Trinidad, Colorado, USA
Erskine Sanford
Biography
Erskine Sanford was an American actor on the stage, in radio and motion pictures. As a member of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre company he appears in several of Welles's films, most notably as the bumbling, perspiring newspaper editor Herbert Carter in Citizen Kane!
Known For
Acting
(1950)
Sierra
as Judge Prentiss
(1949)
Impact
as Dr. Henry Bender
(1949)
Night Unto Night
as Dr. Gallen Altheim
(1948)
Letter from an Unknown Woman
as Porter
(1948)
Macbeth
as Duncan
(1948)
Wake of the Red Witch
as Dr. van Arken
(1948)
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
(1948)
Kidnapped
as Rankeillor
(1948)
You Were Meant for Me
as Frank Smith
(1947)
The Lady from Shanghai
as Judge
(1947)
Possessed
as Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquest
(1947)
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Josiah Borden
(1947)
The Voice of the Turtle
as Storekeeper
(1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Bullard
(1946)
The Stranger
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1946)
Crack-Up
as Museum Director Barton
(1946)
Angel on My Shoulder
as Minister
(1946)
Without Reservations
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
(1946)
From This Day Forward
as Higgler
(1945)
Spellbound
as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
(1945)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Undertaker (uncredited)
(1945)
Girls of the Big House
as Professor O'Neill
(1944)
Mr. Skeffington
as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
(1944)
(1944)
Ministry of Fear
as George Rennit, private investigator
(1943)
Jane Eyre
as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
(1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Roger Bronson
(1942)
The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Jan
(1941)
Citizen Kane
as Herbert Carter
(1941)
Appointment for Love
as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
(1940)
Pop Always Pays
as John Hayes
(1938)
Too Much Johnson
as Frederick